military to try to communicate with Heptapods From Beyond who have landed in one of 12 spaceships around the globe. The main plot of Arrival is fairly simple: renowned linguist Dr. This is the most recent film from Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve, whose previous works include the critically lauded Prisoners (2013) and Sicario (2015). Key examples of this type include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Contact (1997), and now Arrival. There is a third, more rare, type of alien film (which has also been made by Spielberg): ones in which our attempt to understand the unknown becomes the explicit catalyst to better understand ourselves.
There are two main kinds of alien film (both of which, incidentally, have been made by Steven Spielberg): ones in which the visitors from outer space are hostile, as in War of the Worlds (2005), and ones in which they are friendly, as in E.T. He is the recipient of the 2013 UTM Teaching Excellence Award.Īlong with stories about prison, alien encounters provide one of the most common metaphors for movies to represent religious experiences, questions, and dilemmas. Aside from religion and film his teaching and research interests include considerations of religion in relation to literature, violence, popular culture, pedagogy, and Indigenous traditions. Since 2011 he has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Religion and Film, and since 2012 he has been the Co-chair of the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group for the American Academy of Religion. Ken Derry is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). This is a film review of Arrival (2015), directed by Denis Villeneuve.
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